AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +651%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Sep 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

5888

96

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GA104

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

220W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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